I started using the Aloe and Green Tea serum about a fortnight ago and it immediately had a major improvement in reducing that "reflective shiny" skin surface appearance I have. The chronic dehydration was gone in a couple days. In conjunction with using the microdermabrasion cream 2-3 times a week, the results are so good as to have been unprecedented. Not even the big salon brands sold on QVC helped this much.
Today's news - about five days into using the VitC serum instead of the Aloe & Green Tea, I've noticed that the *seriously* large pores on my nose and spreading onto the inner edges of my cheeks - they've been reduced in size significantly. I'd say by maybe a third. My nose has been ugly with large pores which catch all the gunk ever since I was about 12, no matter how clean, no matter what I use from pore-strips to clay masks to oh all sorts! Cleanliness isn't the problem, those pores stretched so much that I thought they'd never tighten up again.
Well, they have! I don't honestly know whether to attribute it to the base ingredients common to both of Karen's serums, or if it's specifically the VitC, but the VitC has made a distinct difference in clarity, skin tone evenness and, for want of a better way to describe it, it's that "looks like you've had two weeks stress-free holiday" glow.
From my understanding of how the skin works, the underlying re-balancing of the sebum production causing the output to slow down has un-stressed the cellular tissue around the pores and allowed the fluid balance inside the cells to regulate themselves instead of diverting their function to aid the sebum output instead. It's not that the VitC tightens pores, it's that the wide pores are a structural defect side-effect caused by the way the skin adapts to not keep the pores tight because it's busy doing something more important instead. Regulating the balance allows all functions to return to normal, so the cells around the pores repair and regain their proper function and, gradually, pore size is restored. I've been using Proline amino acid in solution to assist cellular reproduction to boost the collagen production at base level in optimising the hydroxyproline used for cell-building (Prolagene Gel). However, although that was the best product of it's type, only Karen's serum is the first I've ever come across to address all the issues at once, from optimising the collagen production (allowing cells to form as strong and healthy as possible) while also addressing the surface imbalance with sebum and cellular hydration being brought into balance. The effects I've seen only happen when everything is fixed at once, otherwise some part stays imbalanced.
I need to use aloe vera somewhere in my routine as while using the VitC, the reflectiveness has started to reappear, so I am seeing a difference in the results between the two serums. But wow! Just wow! The combination of ingredients in the VitC seems to have exactly hit the nail on the head because that's reducing my pores in less than a week, with no other routine change other than introducing the Microdermabrasion Cream. I'd heartily recommend this for unbalanced, sensitive, oily-dehydrated skins. *hugs Karen*
